大学生英语竞赛D类阅读理解专项强化真题试卷25
第四部分
William Shakespeare (1564 -1616) wrote many plays and poems which are known the world over. If you think the works of an Elizabethan playwright are not important today, well, think a-gain. Shakespeare’s works have survived the years and then some \\\\ For example, Romeo and Juliet has not only been performed again and again in theaters around the world, but it has also been made into a very popular movie, twice!
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performed／popular
解析：由第一段中最后一句话可知，莎士比亚的作品一遍一遍地在剧院上演，并且被拍成电影，由此可知他的作品非常受欢迎。
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plays
解析：由第一段可知莎士比亚是戏剧作家，因此所写的题材是戏剧形式。
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located
解析：由文章最后一段前两句可知建立的新剧院在离原剧院遗址100米处。
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open
解析：由文章最后一段第四句可得出答案。
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attraction
解析：由文章最后一段第四句可得出答案。
William Shakespeare (1564 -1616) wrote many plays and poems which are known the world over. If you think the works of an Elizabethan playwright are not important today, well, think a-gain. Shakespeare’s works have survived the years and then some \\\\ For example, Romeo and Juliet has not only been performed again and again in theaters around the world, but it has also been made into a very popular movie, twice!
6.
performed／popular
解析：由第一段中最后一句话可知，莎士比亚的作品一遍一遍地在剧院上演，并且被拍成电影，由此可知他的作品非常受欢迎。
7.
plays
解析：由第一段可知莎士比亚是戏剧作家，因此所写的题材是戏剧形式。
8.
located
解析：由文章最后一段前两句可知建立的新剧院在离原剧院遗址100米处。
9.
open
解析：由文章最后一段第四句可得出答案。
10.
attraction
解析：由文章最后一段第四句可得出答案。
Have you ever thought about inventing something? Were you worried that your idea was too strange or unrealistic? Well, maybe you should think again.
Strange and unrealistic ideas never stopped Arthur Pedrick. Pedrick was a British inventor. Originally a government clerk, he spent his retirement in the 1960s and 1970s developing new and unusual ideas. Some of these ideas contradicted basic physics, but that didn’t stop Pedrick. One of his strangest ideas was a plan to connect Australia and Antarctica using large tubes, a distance of 10, 000 km! These tubes were designed to carry giant ice balls from Antarctica to Australia. The ice would then melt in the Australian desert, and the water would be used for irrigation. Another of Pedrick’s inventions was a radio-controlled golf ball. A golfer could change the speed and direction of the golf ball using small flaps attached to the ball, which could be controlled by computer chips. Using radio waves, golfers could also find their lost golf balls. Arthur Pedrick had thousands of bizarre ideas for inventions, most of which were never constructed.
Though many of Pedrick’s inventions were never developed, a lot of other strange ideas have been. In 1989, a company designed and sold a theft-prevention device for expensive cars. As part of this device, several tubes were attached to the bottom of a car. If someone tried to steal the car, super hot flames were emitted from the tubes and burned the car thief. Some people who were not thieves, however, were seriously injured by this device which they accidentally set off by wa
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